Trousers



'(No Model.)

7 M. M. GORIN.

TROUSERS.

No. 592,696. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

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To all whom, it may concern:

UNITED STATES P TENT QFFICE.

MICHAEL M. CORIN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,696, dated October26, 1897.

Application filed anuary 16, 1896. Serial No. 575,708. (No model.)

Be it known that I, MICHAEL M. CORIN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTrousers or Like Garments, of which the follow: ing is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa plan view of a piece of cloth out according to my invention, and Figs.2 and 3 are illustrative views or diagrams.

I illustrate my invention as applied to trousers for children, theobject thereof being to produce a stylish well-fitting garment, simplein manufacture and economical of cloth.

Trousers as ordinarily made, whether for children or adults, are formedof at least four pieces and have a seam down the middle line of theback, a seam on the inner side of each leg, and a seam from thewaistband down the outer side of each leg. In my invention I dispensewith the seams on the outer side of each leg and the seam down themiddle of the back, and thereby save the amount of cloth necessary ateach edge to make these seams. I also save the time and consequentexpense necessary to adjust and fit the parts together in making theseseams,and I simplify and save much of the time occupied in cutting theusual four separate pieces.

My invention is practiced by cutting the pattern for the trousers in onepiece, as shown in Fig. 1.

A is the line of the waist.

B B are the legs.

I) b are the outer edges of the cloth, which are folded from the backtoward the front to join the inner edges 19' b of the medial verticalnotch D in order to make the seam on the inner side of each leg. Incutting the pattern the notch D'is out below the medial line, which isin the position of the usual vertical back seam, as shown in Fig. 1.

b b are the edges of the usual front opening.

a a are the pocket-openings, and b b are the points or extensions, as inthe ordinary trousers-pattern, for joining the seams b to the seams b toproduce the proper curvature of the garment at the top of the seam onthe inner sides of the legs, as shown in Fig. 3.

After the cloth has been out according to curvature indicated at c inFig. 3.

the pattern shown in Fig. 1 (in which the dotted lines indicate theedges of the usual four pieces which make up a pair of trousers) thecloth is stretched in each direction transversely from the medial line CD, Fig. 2, in a manner well known and ordinarily called suppressing, soas to give the portions marked 0 c a bulge sufficient to produce the Atthe point C a stretching occurs to the extent of the ordinary differencebetween the points 0 C of Fig. ],and then a slit is made from the pointC of the notch D to the point 0 which latter point is in the linejoining the points 0 C and thus makes the edges b 1) equal in length tothe edges b b. This produces a point or projection 0 as shown in Figs. 2and 3, which point is sewed to points 19 to form an even and propercurve in the line in the position of the usual back seam and along the.usual front opening from b to a and from O to D in Fig. 3.

After the pattern is cut, as thus described, and the stretching isfinished and the slit from O to O is made the trousersare ready forsewing. Then except for the finishing of the waistband, of the edges 12for the front opening, and of the lower edges 19 the trousers arecomplete upon sewing the edges 1) to the edges 17 after bringing thepoints 19 in conjunction with the point G It is well known that thegreatest strains in a pair of trousers or like garment occur at rightangles to the medial back line C D,

tending to rip or tear the garment substantially on that line. ated inmy invention by avoiding any seam at the back and is one of the pointsof actual 110velty thereof. The above-described stretching at the backalso throws the strains on unstretehed and more elastic parts of thegar- I ment and produces a better wearing article of apparel.

It will thus be seen that the manufacture of trousers according to myinvention is greatly simplified and effects a saving of material and thetime of operatives in the cutting, fitting, and sewing thereof.

It is thus seen that a pair of trousers or like garment made after myinvention is formed of an integral or unitary piece of cloth whichcomprises a body portion and depending This difficulty is obvi- IOOtherefrom two leg portions B B. This piece of cloth is integral orundivided, and therefore is without seam on the middle back line C D ofthe body portion and has the middle notch D in extension of the line C Dand separating the leg portions. The opposite outer edges 1) Z) of thispiece of cloth are sewed to the inner edges Z) Z) of the notch D to formthe legs B B of the garment. The cloth is also slit along the lower endof the line C D to such an extent as to make the edges Z) Z) and Z) 1)equal in length, and the matching edges formed by thus slitting thecloth are sewed together.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A pair of trousers or like garment, formed of anintegral piece of cloth, comprising a body portion and two leg portionsB B; said piece of cloth being integral on the medial back line C D ofthe body portion and having the medial notch D separating said legportions; the opposite outer edges I) b of said piece of cloth beingsewed to the inner edges 1) Z) of said notch to form the legs of thegarment; whereby a Vertical seam is formed on the inner side of each legand the garment is without the usual back scam in the body portion andwithout the usual outer side seam of the leg portion, substantially asdescribed.

2. A pair of trousers or like garment, formed of an integral piece ofcloth, comprising a body portion and two leg portions 13 B; said pieceof cloth being integral 011 the medial back line C D of the body portionand having the medial notch D separating said leg portions; the oppositeouter edges 1) Z) of said piece of cloth being sewed to the inner edgesb b of said notch to form the legs of the garment; whereby a Verticalseam is formed on the inner side of each leg and the garment is withoutthe usual back seam in the body portion and without the usual outer sideseam of the leg portion; said cloth being slit along the lower end ofsaid line C D to such an extent as to make the edges 1) b and b 1) equalin length and the matching edges thus formed being sewed together;substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

MICHAEL M. CORIN.

Vitnesses:

I. L. BUsBY, E. II. l\IARSELLUS.

